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Constructing Scales For Reporting Growth In Numeracy : The Acer Longitudinal Literacy And Numeracy Study, Andrew Stephanou, Marion Meiers, Margaret Forster

Monitoring Learning

The ACER Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Study is set within the conceptual framework of developmental assessment. This paper describes work done on the development of a numeracy scale, and demonstrates how the progressive achievement of the LLANS cohort of students can be reported on that scale and subscales.

Managing Eucalypt Wheatbelt Woodlands - Revegetation On Farms Information Kit, David Bicknell

Natural resources published reports

Revegetation on farms

The Revegetation on Farms Project and the material in this Information Kit is targeted at the agricultural zone of Western Australia with less than 600 mm rainfall. Some of the information is valid outside this range.

All information is provided in good faith, to help make informed revegetation decisions leading to sustainable land use.

2000 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Fall, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

No abstract provided.

Rhodium Trichloride Catalyzed Hydroboration Of 1-Octene: Unexpected Results, Anthony Sampognaro

Theses

Previous studies of the rhodium trichloride (RhCl3) catalyzed hydroboration of 1- octene showed a reversal of regiochemistry compared to the uncatalyzed reaction, and a complex mechanism was proposed to explain this phenomenon. Recent advances in analytical technique has revealed the presence of 4-octanol and 3-octanol. in addition to the expected 2-octanol and 1 -octanol products. The existence of these unexpected products has been attributed to the isomerization of 1-octene to internal isomers prior to normal hydroboration and oxidation, instead of the previously proposed mechanism. Initial kinetic studies indicated that the RI1CI3 catalyzed isomerization of 1-octene occurs too slowly to account …

2000 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes For Fall Semester, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for Fall 2000, retrieved from the 2002 Faculty Senate Website.

Enlarging The Administrative Polity: Administrative Law And The Changing Definition Of Pluralism, 1945-1970, Reuel E. Schiller

Vanderbilt Law Review

"The availability of judicial review," wrote Louis Jaffe in 1965, "is the necessary condition, psychologically, if not logically, of a system of administrative power which purports to be legitimate, or legally valid." In so writing, Jaffe suggested that the abstract beliefs that Americans have about the way government is supposed to work define the relationship between courts and the administrative state. It does not follow, logically, from the existence of administrative agencies that their actions must be policed by courts. In- stead, our beliefs about how public policy ought to be made and about which institutions are best at protecting …

The Use Of Legislative History In A System Of Separated Powers, Jonathan R. Siegel

Vanderbilt Law Review

Legislative history is the ultimate bugaboo of the textualists-those judges and scholars who assert that in statutory interpretation, "[w]e do not inquire what the legislature meant; we ask only what the statute means." The textualists have unleashed argument after argument against legislative history. Textualists assert that judicial use of legislative history seeks a collective legislative intent that does not exist and that would not be law if it did exist. They claim that congressional committees deliberately manipulate legislative history in order to influence statutory interpretation. They argue that legislative history is more ambiguous than the statutes it supposedly clarifies, that …

Timing And Delegation: A Reply, Jonathan R. Siegel

Vanderbilt Law Review

For two authors who come to such different conclusions, Professor Manning and I agree on a good deal. We agree that courts, in considering whether to consult legislative history in the course of statutory construction, must take heed of the special constitutional rule against congressional self-aggrandizement.' Thus, we agree that the Constitution forbids courts to give authoritative weight to post-enactment legislative history, because the effect of such a judicial practice is to permit Congress to delegate a very important power, the power to elaborate the meaning of statutes, to its committees or Members. We also agree, however, that Congress may, …

On Equality, Bias Crimes, And Just Deserts, Kenneth Simons

Faculty Scholarship

In a recent article, Professors Alon Harel and Gideon Parchomovsky propose to widen the focus of criminal law beyond the culpability of the offender and the wrongdoing he commits. Criminal law, they believe, should also encompass the state's special egalitarian duty to protect the interests of the most vulnerable victims of crime. They offer this suggestion for two reasons - to give a convincing justification of bias crime legislation, which they claim a retributivist approach cannot do; and, more broadly, to remedy retributivism's supposedly inadequate attention to the interests of crime victims.

Although these egalitarian goals are worthy, the authors' …

Structure And Phase Transitions Of The 6, 6-Cyclopropane Isomer Of C_ {61} H_ {2}, M. R. Stetzer, Paul A. Heiney, Peter W. Stephens, R. E. Dinnebier, Q. Zhu, Andrew R. Mcghie, Robert M. Strongin, B. M. Brandt, Amos B. Smith Iii

Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations

We have used x-ray powder diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry to study the crystalline structures and thermal behavior of the 6,6-cyclopropane isomer of C₆₁H₂. At room temperature, the C₆₁H₂ cyclopropane molecules, like those of the 6,5-annulene isomer and C₆₀O epoxide, are orientationally disordered and crystallize on a face-centered-cubic lattice such that their methylene groups are statistically disordered among the octahedral voids. Unlike 6,5−C₆₁H₂ and C₆₀O, the low-temperature structure is not Pa3¯, but rather a low-symmetry orthorhombic lattice in which a≈b

Timing And Delegation: A Reply, Jonathan R. Siegel

Vanderbilt Law Review

For two authors who come to such different conclusions, Professor Manning and I agree on a good deal. We agree that courts, in considering whether to consult legislative history in the course of statutory construction, must take heed of the special constitutional rule against congressional self-aggrandizement.' Thus, we agree that the Constitution forbids courts to give authoritative weight to post-enactment legislative history, because the effect of such a judicial practice is to permit Congress to delegate a very important power, the power to elaborate the meaning of statutes, to its committees or Members. We also agree, however, that Congress may, …

The Autobiographical Romance Of Chen Diexian, Patrick Hanan

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies (1999-2006)

No abstract provided.

Judical Independence, Age-Based Bfoqs, And The Perils Of Mandatory Retirement Policies For Appointed State Judges, Christopher R. Mcfadden

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Multiplex: Unifying Conventional And Speculative Thread-Level Parallelism On A Chip Multiprocessor, Seon Wook Kim, Chong-Liang Ooi, Il Park, Rudolf Eigenmann, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vijaykumar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Traditional monolithic superscalar architectures, which extract instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to achieve high performance, are not only becoming less effective in improving the clock speed and ILP but also worsening in design complexity and reliability across generations. Chip multiprocessors (CMPs), which exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP), are emerging as an alternative. In one form of TLP, the compilerlprogramrner extracts truly independent explicit threads from the program, and in another, the compiledhardware partitions the program into speculatively independent implicit threads. However, explicit threading is hard to program manually and, if automated, is limited in performance due to serialization of unanalyzable program segments. Implicit …

Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements: Evidence From An Establishment Survey, Susan N. Houseman

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper examines which employers use flexible staffing arrangements, why they use these arrangements, and their implications for workers and public policy, drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments. Use of flexible staffing arrangements-including temporary help agency, short-term, on-call, regular part-time, and contract workers-is widespread and two-thirds of employers believe this use will increase in the near future. Traditional reasons concerning the need to accommodate fluctuations in workload or absences in staff are the most commonly cited reasons for using all types of flexible staffing arrangements. Many employers also use agency temporaries and part-time workers to screen …

Women's Work And Economic Development, Kristin Mammen, Christina Paxson

Publications and Research

Using a cross-country dataset and microdata from India and Thailand, we examine how women's work status changes with economic development. Several clear patterns emerge: women's labor force participation first declines and then rises with development; women move from work in family enterprises to work as paid employees; fertility declines; and gender gaps in education narrow. Women's education levels, and those of their spouses, appear to be important determinants of women's labor market activities. Broad welfare indicators, such as mortality rates and education levels, indicate that women's well-being improves on average with development, both in absolute terms and relative to men.

Nicholas Trammell's Difficulties In Mexican Texas, Jack Jackson

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Richmond Music Journal (2000-10)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Patent Law In The Administrative State, Orin S. Kerr

William & Mary Law Review

This Article challenges the Supreme Court's recent holding that administrative law doctrines should apply to the patent system. The Article contends that the dynamics ofpatent law derive not from public law regulation, but rather from the private law doctrines of contract, property, and tort. Based on this insight, the Article argues that administrative law doctrines such as Chevron and the Administrative Procedure Act should not apply within patent law, and that such doctrines in fact pose a serious threat to the proper functioning of the patent system.

The Transformation Of The American Civil Trial: The Silent Judge, Renée Lettow Lerner

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Are You Breaking Some Sort Of Law?: Protecting An Employee's Informal Complaints Under The Fair Labor Standards Act's Anti-Retaliation Provision, Jennifer Lynne Redmond

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

John E. Donaldson - Integrity, Sensitivity, And Contribution: A Living Citizen Lawyer, Mark S. Dray

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pharmaceutical Dispensing In The "Wild West": Advancing Health Care And Protecting Consumers Through The Regulation Of Online Pharmacies, Sean P. Haney

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Myth Of Extraconstitutional Foreign Affairs Power, Michael D. Ramsey

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Manufacturing Citizens: National Language Policy In Belize, Shelly Tarkinton

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

The Goat That Makes Us Human, Marjorie Snipes

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy For Process Control In The Petroleum Industry, Kent Lawson Wise

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

As early as 1950, Raman spectroscopy was proposed as a method to determine aromatics and olefins in hydrocarbon mixtures. Until recently, extensive use of Raman spectroscopy in the characterization of hydrocarbons has not been practical due to several limitations. One early limitation to Raman analysis was the absence of a high intensity and stable excitation source. This problem has been overcome with the advent of lasers. Another limitation was the presence of fluorescence in hydrocarbon fuels when excited by visible lasers. However, the development of Fourier-transform Raman spectrometers now allows Raman spectra to be collected using near-IR lasers (e.g …

The Evolution In Using High Tech Teaching Tools In Outreach Programs: From Stone Age To High Tech, Edmond L. Marrotte

Journal of Extension

This article discusses some ways a teacher has successfully used video cameras, projection equipment, and computers as teaching aids in Master Gardener classes and other outreach programs. It covers the trials and evolution of teaching techniques to improve learning levels, describing the use of the video cameras (regular and microscope mounted) and viewing equipment tried and explaining reasons for discarding or keeping them. The use of laptop computers and Microsoft's PowerPoint program and the integration of live video images into the presentation are also covered.